After Hurricane Isaias, neighbors reckon with damage to their homes in Pensacola

Cher Stanturf and her daughter Priscilla examine the damage to Cher's home in the Welcome Mat trailer park on Oct. 10, 2026, the morning after Hurricane Isaias ripped through Pensacola, Florida. (Photo by Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix)Pensacolians picked up sticks and swept fallen leaves from their driveways, sidestepping downed power lines and analyzing how to remove fallen trees hours after Hurricane Isaias came to town. Others had almost nothing left of their homes. Cher Stanturf, accompanied by her two daughters, walked a Florida Phoenix reporter through the Welcome Mat Mobile Home Park, about 2 miles west of the Pensacola airport.  Cher Stanturf and her daughters examine the damage to her daughter Rachel Velez s home in the Welcome Mat trailer park on Oct. 10, 2026, the morning after Hurricane Isaias ripped through Pensacola, Florida. (Photo by Jay Waagmeester/Florida Phoenix) The park had been ravaged by winds that sent trees smashing into Stanturf’s home and the homes of her n